Over thinker

I am struggling with over thinking the draft of my paper. I am finding it difficult to use words to start the sentences. It looks redundant and boring to start each sentence with "I". I want to remember that this is not a list of instructions but just me recording the process I undertook to get my particular results. I am finding it hard to quite understand all the points that the book makes about how a great scientific paper is created. I am usually pretty verbose in my writing. I feel like writing is kind of like painting a pretty picture with words so this is much different to me. I am also trying to avoid using extra scientific or intelligent sounding words. I want so badly to say "utilize" rather than "use". I guess perhaps I feel like my content isn't 'sciencie' enough. I kind of relate these methods to what I learned in a class years ago in elementary school about good journalism. That you simply report your findings and leave all the other shit out of it. Science has been more zen than I ever anticipated. Just observe and report, Stefanie.